Agenda
| May 24, 2023 | Wednesday | |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Set up | |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome to Madison, Wisconsin! – Logistics | |
| 09:10 – 10:30 | Buffalo Holiday Blizzard | |
| 09:10 – 09:50 | A Holiday Period for the History Books: Part One – An Overview and Historical Perspective of the Crippling Buffalo Blizzard of 23-27 December 2022 | Michael Fries – NOAA/NWS Buffalo, NY |
| 09:50 – 10:30 | A Holiday Period for the History Books: Part Two – An Inside View of Operations to Support the Mission and Community | Judith Levan – NOAA/NWS Buffalo, NY |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Winter Storms/Forecasting | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Hovering on the Edge of Predictability – Late Season “Surprise” Winter Storm Buries East Central Wisconsin on March 25, 2023 | Scott Berschback, Rebecca Kruk, Mike Cellitti and Gene Brusky – NOAA/NWS Green Bay, WI |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Lunch break | |
| 12:45 – 14:45 | Severe Storms 1 | |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | ProbSevere products in the Great Lakes Region | Justin Sieglaff – CIMSS/SSEC, UW-Madison |
| 13:15 – 13:45 | Precursors to an Extreme Wind Event: The 2022 June 13 “Derecho” | Jeff Logsdon – NOAA/NWS Northern Indiana |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Anatomy of a Canadian Derecho: The Historic Derecho of May 21 2022 | Arnold Ashton – Ontario Storm Prediction Centre, ECCC |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | The Gaylord MI EF-3 Tornado of 20 May 2022 | John Boris – NOAA/NWS Gaylord, MI |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Break (Evening Logistics) | |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | SSEC “Intro” – Birthplace of Satellite Meteorology | Jean Phillips – UW-Madison SSEC |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Tour of SSEC and the roof of the AOSS Building | |
| May 25, 2023 | Thursday | |
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Set up | |
| 08:30 – 10:45 | Satellites | |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | GOES ABI as a Situational Awareness and Public Outreach Tool around the Great Lakes | Tim Schmit – NOAA/NESDIS/STAR |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | The GOES Enterprise Cloud Product Suite: Convective Snow Nowcasting Applications in the Great Lakes Region | Mark Kulie – NOAA/NESDIS/STAR |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Break | |
| 09:45 – 10:15 | How well do you understand the winds over the Great Lakes? A review of SAR data | Scott Lindstrom – CIMSS/SSEC, UW-Madison |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Visualization of Great Lakes Observations with the SSEC RealEarth Web Mapping API | Sam Batzli – CIMSS/SSEC, UW-Madison |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | IDSS | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Vulnerable Outdoor Populations: A Local Study on How They Receive, Interpret, and Act Upon Weather Information | Megan Varcie – NOAA/NWS Detroit/Pontiac, MI |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Lunch | |
| 12:45 – 15:15 | Marine | |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Marine Observation Challenges: A Discussion | Jordan Gerth, Scott Lindstrom and Greg Mann |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Pre-Christmas 2022 Lake Erie Seiche of Extraordinary Proportions: A Collaborative Event Review Between National Weather Service Cleveland and Buffalo | Robert LaPlante and Kirk Lombardy – NOAA/NWS Cleveland, OH and Michael Fries – NOAA/NWS Buffalo, NY |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | A Preliminary Assessment of the HRRR’s Ability to Predict the Great Lakes Lake-Breeze Front and Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure | Collin DeYoung and Clark Evans – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Break | |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Advancements in Ice Forecasting and Analysis in Support of USCG Operations | Jonathan Edwards-Opperman – U.S. National Ice Center/Ocean Prediction Center |
| 15:15 – 17:00 | Severe Storms 2 | |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Retrospective of the Bayfield Wisconsin Flash Flood July 15-16 1942 | Linda Engebretson – NOAA/NWS Duluth, MN |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | The Memorial Day 2022 Severe Weather Outbreak Across Northeastern Minnesota | Bryan Howell – NOAA/NWS Duluth, MN |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | An Unusual Mid-Winter HSLC Event Across Northern Ohio on January 19, 2023 | Douglas Kahn – NOAA/NWS Cleveland, OH |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Wrap Up discussion / Workshop Concludes |
